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ID: MELCD1001621 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra“Giselle” was shown on the Bolshoi Theatre stage in 1843 after it had charmed the Parisian audience surviving the triumphant birth at the Grand Opera and gaining popularity among Saint Petersburg residents. The ballet was to the taste of Russian music lovers, and since then it has never left the main Moscow stage. The music of the ballet presented on the disks corresponds to Grigorovich production that was performed in cooperation with the conductor Alexander Kopylov. The fragments that had not been issued by Adolphe Adam’s pen were still preserved and within the 19th century they were considered an inseparable part of the music of the ballet. The name of a little known composer Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) became famous due to “Giselle” that won the international recognition. The idea seemed so intriguing to him that he managed to compose music to the ballet within a week. Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) “GISELLE” (“Wilis”), Ballet in Two Acts. Characters: Giselle, a peasant girl Count Albrecht Berthe, Giselle’s mother Bathilde, betrothed to Albrecht Duke of Courland, Bathilde’s father Wilfred, sword-bearer to the Duke Hans, a gamekeeper Giselle’s friends Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis Two Wilis. Soloists: Sergei Amidyan, oboe (No. 13), Leonid Kaplan, alt (No.15) The Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Conductor - ALEXANDER KOPYLOV Recorded in 1987. Sound engineer: P. Kondrashin |
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ID: MELCD1001869 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe Voyevoda was Tchaikovsky’s first opera and was based on the comedy A Dream on the Volga, Scenes from Popular Life of the 17th Century by Ostrovsky. It was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1869 and was very well received. The Russian musicologist Odoyovsky wrote “This opera guarantees a great future for Tchaikovsky.” This performance was recorded in 1982.
Vladimir Matorin (Nechal Shalygin), Leoid Zimenko (Vlas Dyuzhol), Alexandra Fatkina (Nastasya), Galina Guznetsova (Maria Vlasyevna), Lyudmila Bondarenko (Praskovya Vlasyevna), Nina Isakova (Nedviga), Anatoly Mishchevsky (Bastryukov), Yu. Abakumovskaya (Olena), Oleg Klenov (Dubrovnin), Vyacheslav Voinarowski (Jester), Vladimir Svistov (New Voyevoda/Rezvy) |
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ID: MELCD1001849 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe opera Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna) takes a special place not only in Prokofiev's career, but also in the history of Russian Soviet music theatre. It is the first lyrical and comic opera. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy fascinated Prokofiev at once. Having read the play, Prokofiev exclaimed, "This is champagne! It can make an opera à la Mozart or Rossini." The composer immediately started writing the libretto using the English original and translating it into Russian. Prokofiev's wife Mira Mendelson was an author of the rhymed verse. Prokofiev composed the music within a shortest period of time - during the summer and early autumn of 1940. The premiere of the opera was expected at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre in summer of 1941, but World War II did not let it happen. The first performance took place as late as in November of 1946, at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad and received acclaim of critics and audience alike. The opera performed by the soloists, choir and orchestra of the State Musical Theatre of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko conducted by Kamil Abdullayev was recorded by Firma Melodiya in 1963 and awarded an André Messager prize of Academy of Lyric Recordings of France in 1967.
Valentina Kayevchenko (Luisa)
Nina Isakova (Clara)
Tamara Yanko (Duenna)
Anatoly Mishchevsky (Antonio)
Nikolai Korshunov (Don Jerome)
Jan Kratov (Ferdinand)
Eduard Bulavin (Mendoza) |
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ID: MELCD1001876 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraIn 1849, the translator, poet and playwright Lev Mey (1822-1862) wrote a drama The Tsar’s Bride based on one of the passages from the era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride only thirty years later. He began his work in February 1898 and completed it in ten months. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride with his musical means. The opera was premiered in the autumn of 1899 at a Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov being the conductor. The Tsar’s Bride, a sample of realistic drama, is one of the most popular works for musical theatre at the present time. The performance of 1973 presented on these CDs brought together great artists of Russian stage - Evgeny Nesterenko, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantov, Irina Arkhipova and others. |
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ID: MELCD1001955 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and OrchestraThe great violinist David Oistrakh realised his ambition to conduct in 1961and from then until his last concert in Moscow in 1974, combined solo and conducting work. A Viennese newspaper wrote “A world-known violinist being a top-class conductor at the same time is an extraordinary phenomenon.”
It was in 1961 when the great violinist Oistrakh realized his old dream of conducting for the first time. Since then, until his last concert in Moscow in October 1974, where Brahms’s second symphony was performed, the musician combined solo and conducting work appearing to his audiences as a conductor of the Orchestra of Moscow Philharmonic Society, Big Symphony Orchestra of All - Union Radio, and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and other celebrated collectives. “A world - known violinist being a top class conductor at the same time is an extraordinary phenomenon. And David Oistrakh is a remarkable conductor,” wrote one of the Viennese newspapers in 1966. This Firma Melodiya release features compositions by Édouard Lalo (Symphonie espagnole), Hector Berlioz (Harold in Italy) and Johannes Brahms (Violin concerto in D major, Op. 77 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73) performed by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Oistrakh.
CD1:
(1 - 5) Igor Oistrakh, violin / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
(6 - 9) Rudolf Barshai, viola / Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
CD2:
(1 - 3) Igor Oistrakh, violin / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
(4 - 7) Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1002002 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: PianoLyubimov was the first Soviet pianist to record these works
Debussy:
Préludes - Books 1 & 2 (24, complete)
D'un cahier d'esquisses
L'isle joyeuse
Hommage à Haydn
Berceuse héroïque
Alexei Lyubimov (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002054 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Nelya Lebedeva, Denis Korolev & Anatoly Valetny
The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
The ballet score uses music from instrumental works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky composed in the years when Leo Tolstoy conceived and created his novel Anna Karenina.
The title sheet of the score has a dedication “To Maya Plisetskaya, always”. The great ballet dancer and the composer’s spouse to whom Shchedrin’s other ballets were dedicated as well (Carmen Suite, The Seagull, The Lady with the Lapdog) was an initiator of creation of this work. Moreover, apart from dancing the main part, she also choreographed the ballet. The premiere took place at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1971. Valeri Levental designed the stage setting and Pierre Cardin created the costumes. Yuri Temirkanov, the chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre was at the stand. This recording was made with him conducting. |
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ID: MELCD1002030 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: PianoJohann Sebastian Bach’s cycle of preludes and fugues The Well-Tempered Clavier takes a very special place in the world of music. It is not just one of the immortal masterpieces of the world music literature. It literally is an encyclopedia of polyphonic art, its Alpha and Omega; it is a desk book of every thinking musician, a necessary manual for life, and at the same time an inexhaustible source of pleasure. Bach finished the second part of The Well-Tempered Clavier in 1744, twenty years after he created the first part. The reason for composing the send part was his wish to collect in one book the preludes and fugues he wrote at different time and lost among old papers. Bach also wanted to substantially rework these preludes and fugues, give them their final form applying the experience he gained through the years. And that was a truly all-bracing experience. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier gives plenty of play to very different performer’s interpretations. None of the significant music works has caused as many difficulties and debates about the way it should be interpreted. Such a deep, comprehensive and truly artistic approach to the cycle is typical of Sviato- slav Richter. “When I set to The Well-Tempered Clavier, I get always consumed with desire not to exclude any sides for the sake of one narrow and dogmatic position… I am convinced that Bach can be played differently, with different articulation and different dynamics. So long as the whole is preserved, so long as the strict contours of style are not distorted, so long as the performance is convincing enough”, Richter said. |
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ID: MELCD1002095 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Orchestral Works Subcollection: OrchestreThis Melodiya release, dedicated to the bicentennial of the composer's birth, features widely popular overtures and entr'actes from Wagner's operas, which became part of the repertoire of such outstanding conductors as Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, David Oistrakh, Evgeny Mravinsky and others.
Richard Wagner
1. Overture to Rienzi
2. Faust Overture
3. Overture to The Flying Dutchman
4. Overture to Tannhäuser
5. Ride of the Valkyries from The Valkyrie
6. Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
7. Funeral March from Twilight of the Gods
CD2
1. Prelude to Lohengrin
2. Entr'acte to Act 3 of Lohengrin
3. Siegfried's Rhine Journey from Twilight of the Gods
4. Overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
5. Prelude and Isolde's Death from Tristan and Isolde
6. Overture to Parsifal |
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